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:: Not only is it horribly complicated (or rather not clear), arguments over how to do it split the church (the excommunication of the Quartodecimans which sounds like something out of Ghostbusters) and almost started conflicts. See [http://mangsbatpage.433rd.com/2008/03/calculating-easter.html] --[[User:Dgamey|Dgamey]] 22:27, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
::: To be fair, Easter calculation is a bit complex, but not "horribly" so, nor is it all that controversial at this point. Most of the complexity in descriptions is left over from the traditional, pre-computer methods used to calculate the date; in straightforward code, it's not that bad. As for the controversy, that was mostly settled in 325 AD. There is one remaining schism - between the Western and Eastern Orthodox congregations - and even they agree on the basic rule: Easter is the first Sunday after the first (approximated) full moon on or after March 21st. They only disagree in the choice of calendar, which leads to two discrepancies: the two calendars call different days "March 21st" (for years between 1900 and 2099, Eastern "March 21st" is the same day as Western "April 3rd"), and have slightly different rules for approximating the moon phases, so the calculated "full moon" falls on different dates between them. In 2012, Western churches will observe Easter Sunday on April 8th, but the Julian calculation places it on April 2nd, and because of the 13-day difference between the calendars, the actual date of Orthodox Easter is April 15th. --[[User:Markjreed|Markjreed]] 04:22, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
<br>I was thinking of adding a Python calculator for future easters that relied on the random module :-)<br>--[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 13:07, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
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